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Hudson County, NJ

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Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

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U.S. House, New Jersey District 8
4 candidates
Federal ▾
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Rob Menendez
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Rob Menendez is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district, elected in 2022, and serves on Energy and Commerce after earlier service on Transportation and Infrastructure, where he advocated for the Gateway Program, per his campaign site. Before Congress he was a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioner chairing its Governance and Ethics Committee. He lives in Jersey City, per the Hudson Reporter.
Top Priorities
  • Affordability for working families
  • Transportation and infrastructure, including Gateway
  • Healthcare access and environmental justice
Per the campaign site.
Key voting record
Voted no on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Opposed
Voted no on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Opposed
Voted no on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Opposed
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Aristotle Eliopoulos
Biography
Aristotle 'Ari' Eliopoulos is a Jersey City public school teacher and union representative, born and raised in Jersey City as the son of Greek immigrant small-business owners, per his campaign site and the New Jersey Globe. A registered Republican running on an independent line, his bid is backed by the Hudson, Essex, and Union county Republican chairs, per the New Jersey Globe.
Top Priorities
  • Federal support for public schools and expanded career and technical education
  • Services for special-needs families, including strengthening IDEA
  • Cost of living and Hudson County housing affordability
Per the campaign site.
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Craig Honts
Biography
Craig Honts is the Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey's 8th Congressional District, covering most of Hudson County, part of Newark and Elizabeth. Honts is a factory worker and member of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union, according to The Militant. Honts joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1971 after taking part in protests over the killing of Kent State University students who were demonstrating against the Vietnam War, per Patch. Craig Honts appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House, NJ-8, per the county elections office's certified candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
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Da'Shone Hughey
Biography
Hughey is an entrepreneur, educator, author, and technology innovator focused on artificial intelligence, robotics, workforce training, and education reform, per the campaign site. Hughey is running as an independent candidate for New Jersey's 8th District to build a future ready workforce and expand economic opportunity, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Expanding technology, robotics and AI education so students can compete in the future job market
  • Creating training-to-employment pathways in robotics, advanced manufacturing and technology services
  • Supporting small business entrepreneurship and community-based economic development
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
New Jersey fields are from the Division of Elections' Official List of general-election candidates, certified July 27, 2026. No Republican qualified in this district, the first New Jersey House seat without a major-party opponent since 2008, per the New Jersey Globe.
U.S. Senate
4 candidates
Federal ▾
Cory Booker portrait
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Cory Booker
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Cory Booker is New Jersey's incumbent U.S. senator and the Democratic nominee for a third full term in 2026. The former mayor of Newark, he has served in the Senate since 2013 and set the record for the longest Senate floor speech in 2025 protesting administration policy. His work centers on justice reform, economic opportunity, health care, and defending democratic institutions.
Top Priorities
  • Lower health care and living costs for New Jersey families
  • Advance criminal justice reform and economic opportunity
  • Defend democratic institutions and civil rights
Campaign Finance
$32,267,998 raised · top industries: Small-dollar donors under $200 (50% of receipts), Large donors giving $2,000+ (28% of receipts)
Key voting record
Opposed Laken Riley Act as one of nine Senate votes against it, saying it would expand mandatory detention of people not convicted of crimes and invite profiling of immigrant communities. Opposed
Opposed Republican stopgap funding measure during the government shutdown that began , holding out for an extension of Affordable Care Act health insurance tax credits. Opposed
Campaign siteFull profile
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Justin Murphy
REP
Biography
Justin Murphy is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, a self-employed small business owner from Tabernacle in Burlington County's Pine Barrens, per his campaign site and the New Jersey Globe. He served four years in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Comte De Grasse, including six months in the Persian Gulf, per WHYY, and served one term on the Tabernacle Township Committee after his 2000 election, per the New Jersey Globe. He won the four-way June nomination with about a third of the vote.
Top Priorities
  • Replace the tax code with a flat income tax
  • Expand parental rights and school choice
  • Increase domestic energy production, including nuclear power
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Veronica Fernandez
Biography
Veronica Fernandez is an independent candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey, running under the slogan "End the Corruption." A lifelong New Jersey resident, Fernandez co-owns a small commercial electrical contracting business with her husband, according to the campaign site. Fernandez's platform centers on campaign finance reform, affordability and answering to constituents rather than party leadership.
Top Priorities
  • Campaign finance reform, opposing the influence of big donors and special interests
  • Making it more affordable to own a home, raise a family and access healthcare
  • Answering to constituents rather than party leadership or donors
Per the campaign site.
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Joanne Kuniansky
Biography
Joanne Kuniansky is the Socialist Workers Party nominee for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Kuniansky joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1977 and has worked in oil refineries, railroads, meatpacking and as a Walmart deli worker, according to Insider NJ. Kuniansky submitted 3,000 petition signatures to qualify for the ballot and has run for New Jersey governor and U.S. Senate in earlier cycles, per The Militant. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
Top Priorities
  • Breaking from the Democratic and Republican parties to build independent working-class political action
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Countywide races in Hudson County

ZIP 07047 sits in Hudson County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Hudson County races (10).

Hudson County Register of Deeds and Mortgages
2 candidates
County ▾
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Jeffrey Dublin
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Jeffrey Dublin is the incumbent Hudson County Register of Deeds and Mortgages, elected to the office in 2021 after previously serving on the Hudson County Board of Freeholders from 2004 to 2014, per Our Campaigns and the New Jersey Globe. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for Jeffrey Dublin.
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Qamar Raza
REP
Biography
Qamar Raza is a professor at Hudson County Community College and the Republican nominee for Hudson County Register of Deeds and Mortgages, per the New Jersey Globe. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for Qamar Raza.
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About this race
Incumbent Democrat Jeffrey Dublin, seeking another five-year term, faces Republican Qamar Raza. Dublin won the June 2, 2026 Democratic primary with 25,703 votes to Melissa Alexander's 13,255; Raza won the Republican primary with 2,996 votes. Hudson and Essex are the only two New Jersey counties that still elect a county register, per the New Jersey Globe.
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